The
Beaver is getting a namechange, according to its owners,
Canada's National History Society.

According to the New York Times, The Beaver: A Journal of
Progress was "doomed by a vulgar alternative meaning" that
not only made the magazine a schoolyard punchline, but also
kicked the title into spam and junk mail folders in e-mail
programs.

“It’s only been in the last two years or so that it’s been a
problem,” Deborah Morrison, the president and chief executive of
the history society,
told the Times. “‘Beaver’ is one of those key words
students are denied access to on the Internet.”

The journal is now titled Canada's History, with a
subtitle: Formerly The Beaver.